…and our small Mexican feminist sister has written a short, sharp and very funny piece at newstaco.com which begins:
I’m tired of talking about race. The topic makes me want to concurrently take a nap and scream. Though I’ve been talking about it for a long time now, ever since I was a feisty...

Harpyness guest poster and righteous dude Not Mr. Big recently tipped me to a painfully stupid article from Salt Lake City area news outlet in which a “popular speaker and life coach” claims “Romance novels can be as addictive as pornography.” I laughed at the headline but the...

As exquisitely proper and seemingly old-fashioned as she is, Miss Manners is no pushover for the Patriarchy, and she proved it again in this week’s column.
Dear Miss Manners:
My daughter is getting married next year and is having a dilemma as to who should walk her down the aisle. Her father and...

Earlier this week, I was reading the Boston Globe over lunch at work and I happened to find this interview with Andrew Harris, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology (UMass-Lowell), about the sexually-explicit online and cellular behavior of adolescents.
Lestrade and Sherlock are overage....

Last Saturday, Jill @ Feministe wrote a post poking fun at an article in the New York Times about women who have lost interest in sex. She wrote:
I don’t want to problematize lack of sexual interest entirely, because there are people who are genuinely not interested in sex at all, and that’s fine....

There’s a lyric in the unabashedly sentimental song ‘Hey There Delilah’ by the Plain White T’s that goes, Our friends would all make fun of us, and we’ll just laugh along because we know that none of them have felt this way.
For a long time that lyric was my ex and me to a ‘T’. We were...

Last night, I returned home last from an all-day conference — also, soaking wet because the wind ruined my umbrella and popping cough drops because I’m pretty sure I’m getting a sore throat, no thanks to being rained on — to learn the scandalous news that Prince William will not wear...

Cartoon via Sydney Morning Herald blog.
Last year, PhDork and I talked about the feminist implications of panties (and the wearing thereof). Today, it’s time for a feminist pow-wow about that other undergarment most of us wear…the bra.
One of the most enduring labels attached to feminists...

Today’s JOURNALISM FAIL award goes to the reliably dreadful New York Post, for its sleazy, poorly sourced, and sex-crime condoning article: “Unlocking Passion on Rikers Island,” which is about female prison guards who have sex with male inmates. If the headline’s not bad enough,...

Y’all may remember when I wrote about Helen Thomas last year after she made statements about how Jews in Israel should “Go back to Poland. Go back to Germany.” Many people called her out as an anti-Semite, including myself. But in a recent interview in Playboy, the 90-year old journalist...

I like my mother-in-law. This confuses people, mostly co-workers and acquaintances who initiate a conversation by giving me advice on how to deal with her. Some people don’t believe me. Other people smirk and say, “That’s great” in a monotone voice as if they were talking about...

Bisexual Pride Flag
via Pam’s House Blend.
The San Francisco Human Rights Commission LGBT Advisory Committee has recently released a report, Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations (PDF) that reviews the existing research on bisexuality as a sexual orientation and discusses the experience...